A feature-length outing this morning from Kemi on Radio 4’s Today Programme, who clipped a long segment from an interview she’s given for their podcast. Amol Rajan was in the chair…
Repeatedly asked to outline her positions on topical issues such as Thames Water and British Steel, Kemi pushed back, arguing that it’s not right for her to set out any positions as yet: “My view is that I don’t have very much time but I have a lot of things that need doing.” Something of an early Christmas present for the government which events may overtake…
Kemi also claimed high migration is “not my personal record” before taking aim at visa demands from DHSC and DEFRA – blue on blue there. She rolled the pitch for a “very difficult” set of local elections, and refused to go there when asked why voters should choose the Conservatives over Reform. She explained:
“I love metaphors… it’s like opening a restaurant in four years time, people say what’s on the menu… when it’s ready you will see the menu… in four years time the restaurant will be ready, they’re already eating elsewhere now; they’re eating Labour and they don’t like it.”
Got that?
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”